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RGMike

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15 August 2006, it's 1980
« Reply #30 on: August 15, 2006, 10:51:04 AM »
wow, and that was 4 years before Miami Vice!
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« Reply #31 on: August 15, 2006, 10:58:47 AM »
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not quite sure why the Cars backlash, but if you like lead guitar, you've gotta like this song.


My dislike for this song has nothing to do with the guitar--it's that damn yelpy voice that grates on me so.
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« Reply #32 on: August 15, 2006, 11:14:03 AM »
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OMGWTF! BOS3 Boz, "Look What You've Done", a bustout I do believe! Just gorgeous.
It's new to the Db anyway.  Hard to believe.
I knew the song, but couldn't place the album.  Looks like it was on his Hits album, which I doubt I bought, since I pretty much have all his records anyway, and I guess it's from Urban Cowboy.
indeed -- Boz learned his lesson about soundtracks (after turning down Sat Nite Fever) and got himself on UC.
Besides, he's wearing that loud pink jacket on the cover!


One of the worst album covers ever.  Could easily have done to him what the "Rock Me Tonite" video did to Billy Squier.  I imagine that after the photo shoot, Linda Evans beat him up for the shoulder pads.

PS: What song was Boz going to contribute to SNF?

PPS: And that IS SO soft rock.   :D
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Re: Boz
« Reply #33 on: August 15, 2006, 11:18:51 AM »
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PS: What song was Boz going to contribute to SNF?


the producers came to him and said "we'd like to use 'Lowdown'", and Boz replied, no thanks, not interested in being on any damn soundtrack album. An expensive decision, considering the 25 million+ copies it sold.

As a result, his manager convinced him to lease the song to Looking For Mr Goodbar which sold, like, 3 copies.  He did considerably better with Urban Cowboy.
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« Reply #34 on: August 15, 2006, 10:14:15 PM »
Hearing the Police tune on the replay, I've always wondered WTF they're chanting in the song -- "Chuh! Chuh! Chuh!"?  There's a DJ on WLNG named Chuck Mackin who seems to think they're chanting "Chuck! Chuck!", and he plays it as a soundbite during his shows.
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« Reply #35 on: August 15, 2006, 10:25:29 PM »
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Hearing the Police tune on the replay, I've always wondered WTF they're chanting in the song -- "Chuh! Chuh! Chuh!"?  There's a DJ on WLNG named Chuck Mackin who seems to think they're chanting "Chuck! Chuck!", and he plays it as a soundbite during his shows.


Funny, I have a friend named Ian Cha, and he always says it's a salute to him. (He says the same thing whenever we hear In a Big Country.)
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« Reply #36 on: August 16, 2006, 12:47:40 AM »
Are Katrina songs, songs that you folks don't like or are they just songs that are played too much?? Or both??
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« Reply #37 on: August 16, 2006, 07:29:24 AM »
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Are Katrina songs, songs that you folks don't like or are they just songs that are played too much?? Or both??


They are songs that are played too much; often they're songs we once liked a lot but that have been run into the ground thru overexposure.
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Katrina status?
« Reply #38 on: August 16, 2006, 08:18:07 AM »
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Are Katrina songs, songs that you folks don't like or are they just songs that are played too much?? Or both??
They are songs that are played too much; often they're songs we once liked a lot but that have been run into the ground thru overexposure.
I would say it's a little of both.  Katrina is not a neutral term.  Some people reach a personal overexposure point very early on certain songs!
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« Reply #39 on: August 17, 2006, 09:50:28 AM »
8/15/2006 - Tuesday! A visit to...1980!!!
 
1.  Pretenders - The Wait  
2.  Grateful Dead - Alabama Getaway  
3.  Police - Voices Inside My Head  
4.  Dire Straits - Skateaway (BEST OF SET!!)  
5.  Vapors - Turning Japanese  
6.  Boz Scaggs - Look What You've Done to Me  
7.  XTC - Making Plans for Nigel  
8.  Pete Townshend - And I Moved  
9.  Cars - Touch and Go  
10.  Rockpile - Teacher Teacher  
 
BONUS TRACK:  Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
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